Thomas Davenport
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Thomas Davenport was a Vermont blacksmith. Born 1802; died 1851.

With his wife (Emily Davenport), and a colleague (Orange Smalley), he invented the electric motor and electric locomotive circa 1834. Thomas Davenport received the first patent on an electric machine in 1837.

Further Reading

• Frank Wicks. "The Blacksmith's Motor. Electricity, magnetism, and motion: A self-taught Vermonter pointed the direction for lighting the world."   Mechanical Engineering, July 1999.

• Patent 132. http://www.tecsoc.org/pubs/history/2002/feb25b.htm

• Smalley and Davenport's shop. http://www.uvm.edu/~histpres/SD/hist.html

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